Improvement in billiard-cue holders



UNITED STATES PATENT QEErcE,V

GEORGE M. RISING,IOF CHEROKEE, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BILLIARD-CUE HOLDERS.

. Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l73,816, dated February 22, 1876; application filed January 22, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE M. RISING, of Cherokee, in the State Iowa, have invented certain Improvements in Billiard- Cue Holders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and correct description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which the ligure is a perspective View of my device, with a portion broken away, mounted upon a bracket, and arranged to revolve thereon.

The object of my invention is to provide a novel revolving cue-holder or rack that may be attached to a wall, pillar, or tripod by means ot' a bracket, or other device.

It consists oi' a cylinder mounted upon an upright pintle attached to a bracket, the cylinder having arranged therein one or more tubular billiard-cue holders,made rounded on one side and angular on the other, the rounded side being provided with a double spring which, by its reaction, holds the cue when placed therein.

In constructing this device a bracket, B, having an'upright pintle, a, on its outer end is made, as shown in the tignre. Upon this pintle is mounted a cylinder, A, by passing the pintle through a small tube, C,in the center of the cylinder, and securing it by means of a nut, c, as shown. The interior of the cylinder is provided with one or more tubular billiard-cue holders, D, constructed alike and arrranged substantially, as shown. They are made with an angle, d, on one side, the opposite side being round. In the rounded side a long slot, e e, is cut and provided With a middle cross-bar to which a long double spring, E, is attached by any suitable means, and arranged as shown. Ihe lower ends of the holders rest upon and are closed by the bottom of the cylinder, and their upper open ends are secured to its head, as shown. The cue when placed in any one of the holders is held in position by the reaction of the spring in the direction of the opposite angular side, and requires no further support.

' It is obvious that the number of holders will be limited by the size of the cylinder, and that the bracket may be attached to the Wall, or a pillar, or that one or more brackets, with the revolving holder arranged as described, may be attached to a tripod.

Having thus described my revolving cue holder or rack, what I claim isl. A revolving billiard-cue'holder or rack,

Vconsisting ot' a cylinder mounted upon a pintle 1 and provided With tubular devices., having automatic spring-clamps, for holding cues in the manner specitied.

2. A revolving billard-cue holder or rack, consisting of a cylinder mounted on a pintle attached to a bracket, said cylinder having arranged therein one or more socket-tubes, angular on one side and provided with a double spring on the other, substantially as herein described.

- The above specification of said invention signed and witnessed. at Cherokee this sixth day of January, A. D. 1876.

GEO. M.' RISING. Witnesses:

vEUGENE CoWLEs, O. G. WALEATE. 

